"KIN" 2003 Obituary

KING o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-22 published
John OBIMWAIWAI--
CURRIEBAREFOOT
March 8, 1919 to January 14, 2003.
He passed away peacefully on Tuesday at 10: 30 am at the Espanola
GeneralHospital.Beloved husband of the late Elizabeth
KING also
predeceased by parents Bill
BAREFOOT and Maggie
KAY as well as all
his brothers and sisters. Beloved father of Leon (friend Jennifer)
of Whitefish Falls, Leslie (wife Marge) of Birch Island, Emily,
Ashlie, Marilyn, all of Toronto, Margo (step daughter) of Orillia.
Ex-wife Violet of Toronto. He will be sadly missed by grandchildren,
nephews, nieces and many close Friends. He enjoyed his hobbies like
fishing, hunting, and many other sports. Visitation was held on
Wednesday until the funeral service on Friday, January 17, 2003 all
at Birch Island Community Complex. Burial in Birch Island Cemetery,
Arrangements in care of Island Funeral Home.

KING o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-02-19 published
Karen Louise
SHAW (née
KING)
Passed away peacefully at Gore Bay, Ontario on February 16, 2003, age 59.
Loving wife of Robert D.
SHAW for 33 years and mother of Dara
(husband Richard
BRACHMAN), Debbie (husband Kyle
BRENTNELL), and Diana (fiancé Scott
INGHAM).
Predeceased by parents Kenneth and Dorothy
KING and brother Harold
(wife Bonnie
KING). Sister to Alan
KING (Barbara), Betty Ann
HOUDE
(Garry) and Candace
INNES
(Eric.)
Sister-in-law to Norman
SHAW and
Barbara BILLMAN
(Arlo.)
Aunt, friend, and role model to many.
Karen possessed a passion for education working with Okanagan
University College in Kelowna, BC (1996-98), Cambrian College
(1982-1996), and Sudbury High School as a teacher (1967-72). She
earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education
from Michigan State University in 1997.
Karen served the Sudbury community in many roles as: Councillor,
Regional Municipality and City of Sudbury (1991-97), Governor,
Laurentian University (1985-96), President, Sudbury Chamber of
Commerce (1993-94), President, Sudbury Business and Professional
Women's Club (1986-88), and Trustee, Sudbury Board of Education (1976-85).
Her family greatly appreciates the loving care provided by the staff at Manitoulin Lodge.
A memorial service was held on Thursday, February 20 in Sudbury.
Karen's life will be celebrated with a memorial service at St.
Francis of Assisi in Mindemoya later in the summer.

KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-05 published
MarionIsabelPatriciaMacLEA (née
ROBERTSON)
Peacefully on February 24, 2003 at Belmont House in her 91st
year. Born in Toronto on July 1, 1912. Predeceased by her devoted
husband, Wid, in December 1975. Much loved mother of Pat
KING
(Doug,) Linda
THEODOROU
(Nick) and Bob
MacLEA. Survived by her
beloved sister Ruby
COWLING.
Wonderful grandmother to Andrew,
Edward, Peter, Tania, Malcolm (deceased), Michael and Jenna.
She led an active and full life. There were annual trips to Greece
and several to the Far East, England and New York to be with
her family. She grew up in Riverdale and moved to the Beach as
a young adult where she met Wid. A long time member of Kew Beach
United Church Women's Group, lawn bowler at Balmy Beach and active
social and community member. After a stroke in 1995 she was slowed
down. She was alert and contented until a week before her death.
Many thanks to the wonderful staff, volunteers and Friends at
Belmont House. Friends will be received at Kew Beach United Church
(Wineva and Queen Street) on Thursday, March 6, 2003 from 1: 00
p.m. until service time at 2: 00 p.m. A reception will be held
in the church parlour following the service. In lieu of flowers,
please send a donation to Belmont House, 55 Belmont Street, Toronto,
Ontario M5R 1R1, or a charity of choice. Arrangements in the
care of Sherrin Funeral Home (416-698-2861).

KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-24 published
Sailor mom had Northern Magic
An early experience with skin cancer led her to contemplate her
life and make the decision to set off from Ottawa on a four-year
family voyage around the world
By Allison
LAWLORMonday,March 24, 2003 - Page R7
Diane STUEMER dared to dream big and in doing so she captured
the country's imagination.
The Ottawa woman, who sailed around the world with her husband
and three sons and captivated Canadians back home with her weekly
newspaper reports from faraway places, has died of cancer. She
was 43.
"She touched people, said her younger sister Linda
MASLECHKO.
"When you read her stories, you felt that you were part of her
family. She was unabashedly human."
The family odyssey began on September 11, 1997, when Ms.
STUEMER,
her husband Herbert, and their three sons Michael, Jonathan and
Christopher, all under the age of 12, left Ottawa in their 42-foot
steel sailboat named Northern Magic and headed down the St. Lawrence
River.
When they left, the sum of their sailing experience consisted
of a handful of summer afternoons on the Ottawa River.
"Finally, we all wanted to leave, just to get it over with. So
when every contingency had been thought of, prepared for and
fretted over, when we were as ready as we ever would be, we set
off. All we could do now was pray."
Over the next four years, they would visit 34 countries and travel
35,000 nautical miles. When they returned home, in the summer
of 2001, 3,000 people were there to welcome them.
Throughout the trip, Ms.
STUEMER wrote 218 weekly dispatches
for The Ottawa Citizen, chronicling every aspect of their journey
from their lost cat to seasickness to travelling through pirate
waters along the coast of Somalia.
"It's been a long time since the cold grip of fear has clenched
me in my gut, and I was not the only one on board to shiver beneath
the touch of its icy fingers, Ms.
STUEMER wrote, before heading
into waters where there had been at least seven attacks on private
yachts in the past 12 months, two of which involved gunfire.
Ms. STUEMER subsequently published a book about their adventures
called The Voyage of the Northern Magic.
Before setting sail on their epic journey, Ms.
STUEMER and her
husband fantasized about travelling the world, but like a lot
of people they considered putting it off until their retirement.
"In the hustle and bustle of living our lives, with the business
and the home and the kids and everything else, the travel part
of our ambitions just got forgotten, " she once said in a television
interview.
But a brush with skin cancer in 1994 persuaded her to re-evaluate
her life. She and her husband decided it was time to start following
their dreams. Soon after, they sold their advertising business,
rented out their Ottawa-area home, bought and renovated Northern
Magic, a modest 37-year-old sailboat.
"She taught people that you have to find a way to make your own
dream come true, said Diane
KING, a close friend.
The STUEMERs began their journey by sailing down the eastern
seaboard of North America, through the Panama Canal and across
the Pacific Ocean, eventually reaching Australia. From there,
they travelled to Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and across the
Indian Ocean to Zanzibar. They sailed the Red Sea and up through
the Mediterranean to Gibraltar, from where they set out across
the North Atlantic homeward bound.
At times they travelled for weeks without seeing land. The music
of Canadian folksinger Michael
MITCHELL frequently echoed through
Northern Magic, calming frayed nerves during stormy weather or
reminding them of home as they sailed into a new port.
Back home in Canada, Mr.
MITCHELL read about their trip. "I almost
felt I was on the journey with them, " he said.
The family encountered many close calls on their voyage. At one
point, the family boat was docked in Yemen only a few hundred
metres away from where suicide bombers blew a gaping hole in
the U.S.S. Cole.
The trip was not just one of adventure. Along the way they met
remarkable people, many of whom were living in poverty. Touched
by these people, the family set out to make a difference. Ms.
STUEMER's work, along with her popular columns, has managed to
raise more than $50,000 so far for humanitarian causes in Africa
and Southeast Asia.
The money was raised to help pay for student tuitions and school
supplies in Kenya and to help protect orangutans in the jungles
of Borneo.
Diane STUEMER was born on June 23, 1959, in Sarnia, Ontario Not
long after, her family moved to Edmonton. From there they moved
to Calgary, where she spent her formative years. As a teenager,
Ms. STUEMER was working at the Calgary Stampede when she met
a young German man who would later become her husband. Born in
Berlin, Herbert
STUEMER came to Canada with the intention of
travelling and working throughout North America. But after meeting
Diane, he decided to stay put in Calgary. The couple married
there in 1981.
FromCalgary the couple went to Ottawa, where Ms.
STUEMER studied
journalism at Carleton University. After earning her degree,
she went to work for the federal government in various positions,
including briefing the Environment Minister for Question Period.
In 1988, she quit her government job and bought a faltering advertising
company. She turned it around to become a successful business.
She also wrote a biography of her grandfather, William
HAWRELAK,
a former mayor of Edmonton, and helped her father, Frank
KING,
write up his memories of his experience organizing the 1988 Calgary
Winter Olympics.
"Whenever she put her mind to something, she did it intensely,
Ms. MASLECHKO said.
During her life, Ms.
STUEMER followed 11 basic rules. "Live your
life with passion. Dare to dream big dreams, " was rule No. 1.
"Begin immediately, even if you are not ready, " rule No. 4 states.
LastBoxingDay, Ms.
STUEMER became ill, and suffered from persistent
headaches. But it was not until February 6 that the malignant
melanoma that took her life was discovered. In the last month
of her life, she was surrounded in the hospital by family and
Friends, whom she kept laughing with her wonderful sense of humour,
said her sister.
"She said: 'I got a wake-up call and thank goodness I listened.
I changed my life. I fulfilled who I was meant to be', " her
sister Ms.
MASLECHKO recalled. "She made the most of it and that's
a lesson to all of us."
Ms. STUEMER was recently presented with the Queen's Golden Jubilee
Medal. The Medal is given to Canadians "who have made a significant
contribution to their fellow citizens, their community or to
Canada."
The City of Ottawa also has plans to name a park and beach area
on the north shore of Petrie Island Stuemer Park, in honour of
Ms. STUEMER. The Ottawa River island, close to where the
STUEMERs
live, is the place from which they departed on their journey
and returned to four years later.
News of her death attracted a flood of messages to the family
Web site (http: //www.northernmagic.com). Some admirers had followed
Ms. STUEMER's exploits for years. Long-time reader Carol
LAVIOLETTE
wrote: "I followed your adventure from the very start; I laughed
and cried through all of the stories in the Citizen. I prayed
for your safe return and cried tears of joy when the five of
you returned to Canada.
"I am a mother of three myself and could not imagine going on
that kind of adventure, I don't have the strength of character
to undertake something of such magnitude. But I lived it through
your tales. Thank you and God bless you."
Ms. STUEMER died in an Ottawa hospital on March 15. She leaves
her husband Herbert and their three sons Michael, 16, Jonathan,
14, and Christopher, 11, her mother and father, sister and two
brothers.
"Diane was like a little girl who, in all her innocence, really
truly believed she could change the world, Ms.
KING wrote in
a eulogy. "Who would dare tell her that she couldn't?"

KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-23 published
DiedThisDay -- William Richard
MOTHERWELL, 1943
Friday, May 23, 2003 - Page R9
Agrarian, politician born at Perth, Canada West, on January 6,
1860; early homesteader in Saskatchewan; in 1901, co-founded
Territorial Grain Growers' Association to legislate against monopolistic
practices of elevator companies and Canadian Pacific Railway
in 1905, appointed Saskatchewan's first minister of agriculture
tireless advocate of modern farming techniques and agrarian education
in 1918, resigned in opposition to provincial support of conscription
from 1921 to 1930, served twice as federal minister of agriculture
under Mackenzie
KING; died in Regina.

KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-26 published
WEDLOCK,
WalterBertram
We announce the sudden passing of Walter Bertram
WEDLOCK of Scarborough
at the age of 72 years. Born at London, Ontario, Walter moved
to Toronto in 1949. He was the
son of Walter
WEDLOCK (died 1980)
and Helen WEDLOCK (died 1986.) Walter will be sadly missed and
fondly remembered by his life-long Friends: Marion
FLEMING/FLEMMING of
Manotick and Elizabeth
FLEMING/FLEMMING of Mississauga and her children
Nancy CRAWFORD of Acton and Derek
FLEMING/FLEMMING of Mississauga. A funeral
service in commemoration of Walter's life will be held in St.
George's Anglican Church, 3765 St. Clair Ave. E., on Wednesday,
May 28, 2003 at 1 p.m. with the Reverend Gord
KING officiating.
Walter was interred with his parents in Resthaven Memorial Gardens.
Arrangements entrusted to McDougall and Brown Funeral Home.

KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-06 published
Died This Day -- Lord Byng of Vimy, 1935
Friday, June 6, 2003 - Page R11
BritishArmy officer and aristocrat born Julian Hedworth
GEORGE
on September 11, 1862, at Wrotham Park, England; May, 1916, appointed
to command Canadian Corps; April, 1917, directed attack on Vimy
Ridge; promoted to command British 3rd Army; April, 1921, named
Governor-General of Canada; in June, 1926, refused request for
dissolution of Parliament sought by Prime Minister Mackenzie
KING; led to King-Byng Affair; departed from Canada under a shadow,
even though constitutionally correct; 1928-31, named chief commissioner
of London Metropolitan Police.

KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-18 published
SHEPBERD,
Maryan (née
KING)
Born Halifax, Nova Scotia 1935 died Mullumbimby, New South Wales,
Australia 2003. Predeceased by parents Marjorie and Martin
KING
of Halifax and by brothers Stanley (Captain R.C.N.) of Ottawa
and Andrew (Major (Retired) R.C.R.). Maryan graduated from Compton
School, Quebec and Acadia University. She spent time in England
and emigrated to Australia with her husband John in 1969. Funeral
to be held at Saint Martin's Anglican Church, Mullumbimby, 21st
August, 2003.

KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-12 published
James Alexander
GIBSON
By David FARR,
Wednesday,November 12, 2003 - Page A30
Secretary to a prime minister, teacher, university builder, scholar.
Born January 29, 1912, in Ottawa. Died October 23 in Ottawa,
of natural causes, aged 91.
The▼ sudden death of James Alexander
GIBSON has taken from the
scene a man who served a great prime minister during the crowning
moments of his career. James
GIBSON was the last survivor of
the small group of men and women who toiled at the side of Mackenzie
KING throughout the Second World War.
GIBSON joined
KING's personal staff in 1938, seconded from the
Department of External Affairs to Laurier House,
KING's home
and office. Prime Minister
KING was also Secretary of State for
External Affairs and
GIBSON's job was to liaise with the department.
The lonely prime minister, totally dedicated as he was to his
office and to the place he was forging in Canadian history, revealed
himself to be a severe taskmaster.
GIBSON had been married only
a few months after he started work at Laurier House but
KING
paid little attention to the family circumstances of his staff.
His absorption in his work was almost total, even including nights,
weekends and holidays.
GIBSON met these demands with an even temper and a willingness
to subordinate his time to that of his master. It cannot have
been an easy role but
GIBSON rarely showed impatience. Shortly
after he joined Laurier House,
GIBSON was plunged into the mass
of arrangements connected with the Canadian visit of King George
Virgin Islands and Queen Elizabeth in 1939. Later, during the
SecondWorldWar and after, he travelled with
KING to conferences
in Quebec City, San Francisco, London and Paris.
GIBSON was aided immensely, through an extraordinarily crowded
life, by a phenomenal memory. He could tell you something about
each of more than 50 trips, by sea and air, that he had made
across the Atlantic. He could recall when he had read a book
or met a person; when someone had held office, diplomatic or
political or when someone had died. One of his most striking
feats of memory, expressed casually, was to point out to the
Parks Canada staff at Laurier House, when he revisited his old
quarters after 30 years' absence, that they had moved many of
KING's pictures! When he taught at Carleton University after
leaving External Affairs in 1947, his fund of knowledge on Canada's
constitution and politics amazed his students. His prodigious
memory remained with him, clear and accurate, to the last.
Unfortunately James
GIBSON never wrote the "big book" that was
in him on his life with Mackenzie
KING. He completed a number
of short articles on war-time incidents in
KING's time in office
which revealed the prime minister's manner of dealing with matters
of state. His recollections are also to be found in taped interviews.
Sadly his conversations are no more for, in a city of notable
raconteurs, he was superb.
His historical interests were mostly directed toward the office
of governor-general, especially to those governors-general around
the time of Confederation. His Oxford thesis was a study of Sir
Edmund Head, whose wife painted the water colours that persuaded
Queen Victoria to settle Canada's capital in a remote lumber
village. His knowledge of the careers of our governors-general
won him the Jules and Gabrielle Leger Fellowship in 1980, a fully
merited honour.
Behind GIBSON's formidable knowledge and long experience dwelt
a gentle soul, a kindly and considerate man who remembered families
and occasions without fail. He was always a delight to be with,
a companion who gave more than you were ever able to return.
Vigorous to the end, his death leaves a sad emptiness in many
lives.
David FARR is a friend of James
GIBSON.

KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-26 published
A scholar and a gentle man
'Fine example of a great Canadian' who founded Ontario's Brock
University was once private secretary to prime minister Mackenzie
KING
By Ron CSILLAG,
Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, November
26, 2003 - Page R9
In an almost Zen-like fashion, James
GIBSON knew the value of
not acting. In the late 1960s, when a group of student radicals
seized part of Brock University, hoping to be dragged away kicking
and screaming, Dr.
GIBSON, who had helped found the institution
a few years earlier, reacted in a way no other university president
did when faced with the same problem: He did nothing. The protesters,
he reasoned, may have had legitimate grievances, but their unseemly
actions offended his firm sense of propriety. In time, the students
simply went away.
It was an effective, though uncharacteristic, action for a man
who embodied Brock's Latin motto: "Surgite," freely translated
as "push on." That he did, through some 65 rich years of advancing
higher education and in public service, most notably as a private
secretary to former prime minister Mackenzie
KING, whose penchant
for soothsaying and assorted eccentricities Dr.
GIBSON kept mainly
to himself until later in life.
Just five days before his death in Ottawa on October 23 at the
age of 91, Dr.
GIBSON was doing what he loved: Watching a new
group of graduates receive their diplomas at the fall convocation
of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, the school he
had launched as founding president in 1963.
At a recent memorial service at Brock, David
ATKINSON, the university's
president and vice-chancellor, recalled a man whose attributes
a strong moral fibre, clarity of thought and a general uprightness,
all tempered by a warm and gentle touch -- harkened to a quaint,
bygone era. "It's unlikely we will meet anyone like him again,"
Dr. ATKINSON said.
In the House of Commons on October 27, Dr.
GIBSON was praised
by St. Catharines Liberal member of parliament Walt
LASTEWKA
as "a fine example of a great Canadian."
Dr. GIBSON, whose knowledge of Canadian history and government
were legend, was in the news this past summer as the oldest of
over 1,000 Rhodes Scholars who flew to England for a five-day
bash honouring the centenary of the trust. With his brother William,
also a Rhodes Scholar, Dr.
GIBSON dedicated a re-leaded stained-glass
window at the chapel of Oxford's New College.
A normally discreet man, he had sharp words for former prime
minister Brian
MULRONEY, not an Oxford graduate, who surprised
guests at the alumni dinner -- and raised a few eyebrows -- when
he took a seat on the podium alongside Oxonians Bill
CLINTON
and Tony BLAIR, and guest Nelson
MANDELA.
Many alumni, Dr.
GIBSON
included, felt that Mr.
MULRONEY, who had been invited by The
Independent newspaper chain, had no business being there. Though
upset, Dr.
GIBSON retained his dignity, saying simply, "I was
offended."
James Alexander
GIBSON was born in Ottawa, in 1912, to Canadian-born
parents of Irish-Scottish stock with strong Methodist and Quaker
leanings. Raised in Victoria, he graduated with a B.A. in history
from the University of British Columbia at age 18. Less than
a year later, he was one of the youngest boys at Oxford.
"That was the real dividing line in my life," he told The Globe
and Mail last July. "The economic depression was beginning to
take over and some of the graduates in my year at University
of British Columbia ended up digging ditches, but I had a guaranteed
income for three years."
The▲ annual stipend was only £400 but it enabled Dr.
GIBSON to
live comfortably and travel to the rest of Europe when he wasn't
studying modern history, debating in the Oxford Union Society
and keeping wicket for the New College cricket squad, the Nomads.
Back in Ottawa and armed with a doctorate in history, he joined
the Department of External Affairs. On his second day on the
job, he was whisked to the prime minister's office for a six-month
secondment that lasted nine years. Mr.
KING, who was also External
Affairs minister, blocked Dr.
GIBSON's promotions to postings
abroad three times because "he told me I stopped him getting
into trouble."
The prime minister was a notorious taskmaster, calling on his
assistant to work most evenings and weekends to draft letters
and speeches. Throughout, "Dad never complained about anything,"
said his daughter Julia
MATTHEWS. "
But as he got older, he loosened
up a little."
According to his daughter, he came to describe the famously erratic
leader as "a very grumpy man and a very lonely man, insensitive,
and quite damaging to work for."
Ultimately, it occurred to the clan that perhaps the unmarried
prime minister was simply jealous of Dr.
GIBSON's status as a
beloved family man and father of three children. "Whenever we
went on a family holiday, Dad always got called back," remembered
Ms. MATTHEWS.
But a high point came in the spring of 1945, when Dr.
GIBSON
accompanied Mr.
KING and 380 other delegates to San Francisco
and the founding of the United Nations. During the historic two-month
conference, Dr.
GIBSON got personal glimpses of such leaders
as the Soviet Union's Andrei
GROMYKO and Britain's Anthony
EDEN,
but the task at hand, he later recalled, was to keep the Canadian
prime minister "on the rails."
Fearing he would never advance in the public service, Dr.
GIBSON
resigned in 1947 and took a teaching post at Ottawa's Carleton
University, where he later served as the first dean of arts and
science and deputy to the president. By the early 1960s, he was
courted by a group of community leaders in the Niagara peninsula
to establish Brock University. When he began as founding president,
the school had seven faculty (known as "the magnificent seven"),
29 students and a "library" consisting of a shelf of books. Today,
it boasts more than 15,000 students and 47,000 alumni.
His first order of business at Brock was the creation of a library.
Now housed in the campus's Schmon Tower, it has become something
of a landmark on the Niagara Escarpment. Dr.
GIBSON, fondly known
by faculty as "James A.," remained as Brock's president until
1974. He was named to the Order of Canada in 1992, and the library
was named after him in 1996.
He was also a leading figure in the Unitarian faith, serving
for a time as chaplain of the Unitarian Congregation of Niagara.
Asked what dinner-table conversation was like at home, Ms.
MATTHEWS
sighed good-naturedly. "Oh, God. There was a lot of current events.
He had all the answers. He was always lecturing, but he could
be really charming." Even after his vision started to fail, he
travelled, read and wrote. "He never felt old."
After moving from his beloved St. Catharines to an Ottawa retirement
home, Dr. GIBSON lectured residents on "governors-general I have
known."
Dr. GIBSON was predeceased by his wife of 57 years, Caroline
(née STEIN,) and leaves three children, seven grandchildren,
two great-grandchildren, his brother, and a sister, Isobel
SEARLS.
His final days were summed up poetically by Josephine
MEEKER,
a former professor at Brock. After attending the university's
convocation last month, Dr.
GIBSON "went for a long walk, returned
to his residence, went into the lounge area, took off his coat
and folded it up, put it on the back of his chair, sat down,
folded his hands in his lap, closed his eyes, and died."

KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-02 published
DiedThisDay -- Sir Joseph
POPE, 1926
Tuesday, December 2, 2003 - Page R5
Federal civil servant born at Charlottetown on August 16, 1854
1878, arrived in Ottawa as private secretary to uncle, Prince
EdwardIsland premier James Colledge
POPE; later served Sir John
A. MacDONALD; 1896, became under-secretary of state for foreign
affairs; persuaded
LAURIER government to set up permanent department
1909, named first permanent head of External Affairs; helped
resolve such significant issues as Alaska boundary dispute; adviser
to Mackenzie
KING.

KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-10 published
FULTON quietly kept the Canadian Football League in running order
By Stephen
BRUNT,
Wednesday,December 10, 2003 - Page S8
Less than a month back, during Grey Cup week, Greg
FULTON picked
up his phone to answer a few questions from a reporter.
Frail health had kept him from making the trip to Regina, but
in conversation he was sharp as a tack and again proved himself
to be a one-man encyclopedia of Canadian football history.
Paul MARTIN, the prime minister to be, was going to make a much
publicized pregame appearance at Taylor Field, fresh from the
Liberal leadership convention.
Aside from Pierre
TRUDEAU,
FULTON was asked, did he remember
any other prime minister taking the time to attend the Grey Cup?
"Well," he said, "I don't remember Mackenzie
KING being there.
Or Louis SSAINTURENT."
Of course, he knew because he was there. It seemed he was always
there -- a player beginning in Winnipeg in 1939, a statistician
and treasurer for the Calgary Stampeders from 1950 to 1966, a
fixture in the Canadian Football League office from 1967 on,
and, finally in his last job, the Canadian Football League's
honorary secretary and official historian, a title surely unique
in all of pro sports.
The National Football League still has a few owners with connections
to the game's early days, and in hockey and baseball there are
at least a handful of sportswriting elders who still remember
when. But only the Canadian Football League actually employed
someone who had an inside view extending back more than 60 years.
Considering how tumultuous some of those seasons have been and
considering the game's highs and lows and the cast of strange
and wonderful characters who came and went, what a tale
FULTON
could tell.
He was 84 when he died on Monday, and with him, sadly, is lost
much of the anecdotal story of the league. (Commissioner Tom
WRIGHT, who during his relatively short term on the job had come
to appreciate
FULTON's special role, planned to have
FULTON's
memories committed to tape and transcribed. Sadly, that didn't
happen before
FULTON fell ill.)
FULTON's tenure with the league office was perhaps the only significant
legacy of Keith
DAVEY's 54-day reign as commissioner in 1967.
Davey lured
FULTON to Toronto from Calgary to act as the league's
treasurer. When Jake
GAUDAUR took over from
DAVEY, he decided
to keep FULTON on.
"It would be the most important decision I would make,"
GAUDAUR
says now, which, given the events of his 16 years in office,
is quite a statement. Every subsequent commissioner -- and there
have been a bunch -- endorsed and echoed that original decision.
Not that anyone on the outside would really understand. "All
of those beneficial things he did for the league were all out
of public view,"
GAUDAUR said. "He never received any sort of
media credit, nor did he want any. Clearly, it was a labour of
love for him. That's kind of corny to say that, but I really
believe it was."
In those early days, the league was a two-man, two-secretary
operation.
FULTON, an accountant by profession, kept the books,
kept an eye on club finances and kept the minutes during league
meetings -- all during a period when the game grew into a multimillion-dollar
sports business. He was also charged with producing the schedule
every year, a trickier proposition than it might seem, given
the uneven number of teams, the east-west split and the importance
of certain dates in certain places.
At one point,
GAUDAUR remembers, they turned the task over to
a computer. And then, after the computer coughed out its work,
they handed it to
FULTON, who fixed it. "He had what I consider
to be a computer mind,"
GAUDAUR said. "It was an incredible mind."
The Canadian Football League took a turn for the worse after
GAUDAUR left the post. Commissioners came and went, the league
at times teetered on the brink of insolvency, the disastrous
U.S. expansion played itself out and the owners at times resembled
a bag of mixed nuts.
But there was always
FULTON, quietly keeping things in running
order, breaking the tension with his wry, quiet sense of humour,
loyal first and foremost to the game he loved.
"He was a remarkable person,"
GAUDAUR said. "It really was a
pleasure to be around the guy."
Several generations of those who spent time in the Canadian Football
League orbit share those sentiments and mourn the loss.

KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-17 published
Life was good for
MAGNUSON
By Eric DUHATSCHEK,
With a report from Allan
MAKI Wednesday,
December 17, 2003 - Page S1
It was one of those "catching up with" features newspapers run
every so often. Last January, the Chicago Sun-Times profiled
Keith MAGNUSON, one of the most popular players ever to pull
on a Chicago Blackhawks sweater.
To the thousands who used to pack the old Chicago Stadium,
MAGNUSON's
ever-lasting appeal came from a rough-and-tumble playing style
that produced a cracked cheekbone, three knee injuries requiring
surgery, a torn Achilles' tendon, two broken ankles, a dislocated
elbow, three broken jaws, a broken vertebra, a broken wrist,
a dislocated shoulder, three missing teeth and more than 400
stitches.
MAGNUSON, after reflecting on his career, his hobbies and all
the aches and pains that resulted from a 10-year National Hockey
League career, observed: "Otherwise, I feel great. Cindy [his
wife] and I are real proud of our kids."
"Life is good,"
MAGNUSON concluded.
Life for
MAGNUSON ended at the age of 56 in a fatal automobile
accident on Monday afternoon as he was returning home from a
funeral for National Hockey League alumni association chairman
Keith McCREARY, who died last week of cancer.
MAGNUSON was the
passenger in a car driven by former National Hockey League player
Rob RAMAGE, the vice-chairman of the alumni association.
MAGNUSON played 589 National Hockey League games for the Blackhawks,
and on his retirement in October of 1979, he joined the team's
coaching staff, as an assistant to Eddie
JOHNSTON.
JOHNSTON,
now the Pittsburgh Penguins' assistant general manager, remembered
MAGNUSON yesterday as "the ultimate competitor. I mean, when
Keith MAGNUSON put on the skates on, you didn't just get 100
per cent, you got 110 per cent every night. He just played with
so much passion, it was unreal."
TheBlackhawks made it to the Stanley Cup final twice in
MAGNUSON's
career, in 1971 and 1973, losing both times to the Montreal Canadiens.
It was the heyday of hockey in Chicago. The Blackhawks had Dennis
and Bobby HULL, the legendary Stan
MIKITA and Tony
ESPOSITO,
a future Hall Of Fame member, in goal.
MAGNUSON's job was to
protect ESPOSITO, and he did it with a passion that
JOHNSTON
said was contagious in the Blackhawks' dressing room.
"What he always did very, very well was set the tone early in
the game. He let the opposition know that when you dropped the
puck in the game, "This was what you were going to see, guys,
for 60 minutes.' "
MAGNUSON, who most recently was the director of sales for Coca-Cola
Enterprises, grew up in Saskatoon as an all-round athlete. He
was a boyhood chum of former National Hockey League coach Dave
KING.
The two attended Churchill elementary school and used to
play 1-on-1 hockey:
KING as a forward and
MAGNUSON as a defenceman.
Eventually,
MAGNUSON and four other teenagers from Saskatoon
earned scholarships at the University of Denver and helped the
Pioneers win two National Collegiate Athletic Association championships.
MAGNUSON and Tim
GOULD played every sport together and were also
teamed as defence partners.
"We never missed a shift," said
GOULD, whose wife, a nurse in
Calgary, woke him early yesterday to inform him of
MAGNUSON's
death. "He was the greatest guy and a good friend."
GOULD said he and
MAGNUSON used to dream up ways to get
MAGNUSON
to hockey, football and baseball games on Sunday.
MAGNUSON's parents were Baptists and considered the Sabbath a
day of rest. It became
GOULD's job to sneak into the
MAGNUSON
home while they were at church and take Keith's equipment to
the rink or the diamond.
"Of course, if we scored a goal or a run, our names would be
mentioned in the newspaper the next day,"
GOULD said. "But we
thought we were keeping it secret."
GOULD said
MAGNUSON was best known among his Friends for having
a poor memory. Once in Saskatoon,
MAGNUSON drove his dad's car
to the rink for a Blades game, only to drive home with a teammate,
the two of them completely immersed in the game they had just
played.
The next morning,
MAGNUSON's father asked where the car was.
"Keith had to run back to the rink to get it," said Dale
ZEMAN,
another of
MAGNUSON's former junior and college teammates. "There
was also the night Keith and I went bowling when we were freshmen
at Denver. We came out and couldn't find the car. It had rolled
backwards three blocks because Keith forgot to put it in park."
GOULD said: "He was awful forgetful. We're having a reunion in
June [for Denver University hockey] and we had a card printed
up, and Keith's quote on it was: 'I'm going to be there -- and
Cliff [KOROLL] is going to remind me.' The memories, that's what
get you through this."
MAGNUSON is survived by his wife, his daughter, Molly, and his
son, Kevin, a former University of Michigan defenceman who had
a tryout with the Blackhawks. Recently, after a short playing
career in the East Coast Hockey League, Kevin had gone back to
school for his law degree,
JOHNSTON said.
"To have something like this happen, this close to the holidays,
the timing couldn't be worse. It's never good, but geez, here
he is, going up there for a funeral for Keith
McCREARY and then
to have something like this happen.
"God, it's awful," he said. "We'll miss him. He was such a big
part of the community in Chicago, an icon. Everybody knew Keith
MAGNUSON.
It's an awful tragedy."
San Jose Sharks general manager Doug
WILSON, another of
MAGNUSON's
close Friends, was badly shaken by his former teammate's death.
WILSON said he thought of
MAGNUSON as something of a father figure.
"Keith has had a profound influence on my life." Really, all
I can say is, all my thoughts and prayers are with Cindy and
the kids right now."
Jim DEMARIA, the Blackhawks executive director of communications,
worked closely with
MAGNUSON in his role as the founder and president
of the Chicago alumni association.
"Any time you needed something, you could call Maggy,"
DEMARIA
said. "He was the first guy in line to help any kind of charity
you had. I mean, he was just that kind of person. And when the
team wasn't doing real well, he was down in the room, talking
to the coaches, telling the players, 'keep your chin up, keep
working, things will turn around.' He was a real positive guy."

KINGSMILL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-04 published
DEVLIN,
MajorEdwardGordon
Died suddenly on April 2, 2003. A former student of the Royal
Conservatory of Music, distinguished World War 2 veteran, avid
concert goer and antique collector. Beloved brother of Betty
JARVIS, the late Dorothy
BAGSHAW and the late John
DEVLIN.
Dear
Uncle of Bill
BAGSHAW, Bettyann
WARD, Carolyn
MacLEOD, John
KINGSMILL,
Julie, Jane and Lesley
DEVLIN and predeceased by his niece Gillian
KINGSMILL. Devoted Great Uncle of Joshua,
CONNOR and Caitlin
KINGSMILL, Laura
THORNBERRY, John
WARD and Susan
ENGLAND, Cameron
and Kaylie
MacLEOD and Ellie, Kate and Alex
POMERANT.
The family
would like to thank the caring staff at The Briton House. Friends
may visit on Saturday, April 5th from 11: 00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
at Morley Bedford Funeral Home at 159 Eglinton Avenue West (2
stoplights west of Yonge St.), Toronto, following which a private
family service will be held. In lieu of flowers, donations to
the Toronto Humane Society or a charity of your choice would
be appreciated.

KINGSTON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-05 published
ORR,
EdithHilda
On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at St. Catharines General Hospital,
Edith ORR, in her 80th year. Beloved wife of Dr. William J.
ORR
for 58 years. Daughter of the late Archbishop and Mrs. George
Frederick KINGSTON, former Primate of the Anglican Church of
Canada. Loving mother of James (Sally), William (Manon), Donald
and Robert (Judith), loving grandmother of James, Sarah, Kate,
Heather, Graham, David and Anne. Born in Nova Scotia, graduate
of Bishop Strachan School and Trinity College, University of
Toronto. Will be remembered for her active contribution to the
Niagara community. Cremation has taken place. Family will receive
Friends at George Darte Funeral Chapel, 585 Carlton Street, St.
Catharines, on Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. Memorial Service to celebrate
her life will be held at St. George's Anglican Church, 83 Church
Street, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3C7, on Thursday at 2 p.m.
If desired, family would appreciate donations to Dr. William
J. Orr Fund of the Niagara Peninsula Children's Centre, 567 Glenridge
Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2T 4C2 or St. George's Anglican
Church.

KINGSTONE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-12 published
KEARNS,
ThomasJoseph
Tom died peacefully at North York General Hospital on February
9, 2003, following a brief illness, in his 96th year. Beloved
husband of Edith
KEARNS, and the late Anne
KEARNS (1979.) Tom
will be greatly missed by his son Dr. Terrence
KEARNS
(Linda)
and his daughter Colleen
DODDS, and Edith's children Bob
McFARLAND
(Pat,) and Jayne
CHALLONER
(Jim.) He leaves behind six grandchildren
Glen KEARNS (Shelly), Chris
KEARNS (Nancy), Tim
KEARNS (Kim),
Darlene KINGSTONE (Brian), Denise
DODDS (Wayne), Catherine
DODDS
(Lee), and seven great-grandchildren. The family extends thanks
to Dr. RUMBLE,
Dr.SOMMERFIELD, and the excellent nursing staff
at North York General Hospital. Friends may call at the Trull
'North Toronto' Funeral Home and Cremation Centre, 2704 Yonge
Street (5 blocks south of Lawrence), on Wednesday from 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Blessed
Sacrament Church (Yonge Street south of Lawrence), on Thursday
morning February 13, 2003 at 10 o'clock. Interment Holy Cross
Cemetery. Donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated.

KINNA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-20 published
MacDONALD,
CatherineMildred (née
JOHNSON)
Died peacefully at home, on August 19, 2003, in her 87th year,
surrounded by those she loved. Daughter of the late Michael and
Catherine JOHNSON. Cherished wife and constant companion of Martin
for over 61 years. Devoted mother of Stephen, David and Jody,
Bob and Moira, Tom and Lise Anne, Andrew and Ellen, and Paul.
Loving grandma of Kaeli, Liane, Michael, Mark, Colin, Kristen,
Brendan, Katie, Andrew, Joana and Matthew. Much loved sister
of Geraldine, Sister Gertrude, Congregation of Notre Dame, Father
Joseph, S.J., and Theresa, the late Ellen, Bernard, George, Gerald,
John and Howard. Special sister-in-law of Margaret
KINNA.
Family
and Friends may call on Thursday, August 21, 2003 from 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. at the R.S. Kane Funeral Home (6150 Yonge Street, at
Goulding, south of Steeles). A Mass of Christian Burial will
be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, August 22, 2003 at St. Gabriel's
Roman Catholic Church, 650 Sheppard Avenue East, Toronto, followed
by burial at Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill. Special thanks to
Dr. Anne PYPER,
VirginiaCLARK-
WEIR, R.N., and friend Andrea
WARNICK, R.N., for their extraordinary care and kindness. In
lieu of flowers, donations to North York General Hospital Foundation,
Attn. Freeman Centre for Palliative Care (4001 Leslie Street,
Toronto, Ontario M2K 1E1) would be most appreciated. Millie/mom/
grandma was an extraordinary woman who touched all who knew her.
She will be deeply missed.
''Deo gratis''

KINNEAR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-27 published
KERNOHAN,
Kathryn▼Margaret▼ (née
KINNEAR)
Born December 29, 1911 died December 24, 2003 in Toronto, her
birthplace. Beloved wife of the late Gordon E.
KERNOHAN.
Predeceased▼
by her parents Thomas H. and Margaret G.
KINNEAR (née
NASMITH)
and her brother T. Clark
KINNEAR.
Much▼ loved and most loving
mother of Susan
SCACE
(Arthur,)
Kathy and Patrick
KINNEAR (Ginny.)
Adored ''Gammi'' of Jennifer and Patrick, Gordon and Cayleigh,
and Sarah and Maggie. Special Grammi to Matthew, Jonathan and
Adam. Cherished Auntie Kay to Bill
KERNOHAN, the late Dodie
PHILLIPS
Tom, Bob and Bill
KINNEAR and Margo
HYDE. A heartfelt thank you
to all the caregivers at Belmont House over the last ten years.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, January 12, 2004 at
11 o'clock at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church. A reception will
follow. If desired, donations may be made to Timothy Eaton Memorial
Church, 230 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto M4V 1R5, or to a charity
of your choice.

KINNEAR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-30 published
KERNOHAN,
Kathryn▲Margaret▲ (née
KINNEAR)
Born December 29, 1911 died December 24, 2003 in Toronto, her
birthplace. Beloved wife of the late Gordon E.
KERNOHAN.
Predeceased▲
by her parents Thomas H. and Margaret G.
KINNEAR (née
NASMITH)
and her brother T. Clark
KINNEAR.
Much▲ loved and most loving
mother of Susan
SCACE (Arthur), Kathy and Patrick (Ginny). Adored
''Gammie'' of Jennifer and Patrick, Gordon and Cayleigh, and
Sarah and Maggie. Special Gammie to Matthew, Jonathan and Adam.
Cherished Auntie Kay to Bill
KERNOHAN, the late Dodie
PHILLIPS
Tom, Bob and Bill
KINNEAR and Margo
HYDE. A heartfelt thank you
to all the caregivers at Belmont House over the last ten years.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, January 12, 2004 at
11 o'clock at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church. A reception will follow.

KINOSHAMEG o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-08-13 published
Phillip Howard
DEBASSIGE
In loving memory of Phillip Howard
DEBASSIGE,
February 5, 1947 to
August 9, 2003. "Lover of Horses" Phillip
DEBASSIGE, a resident of
M'Chigeeng First Nation, began his spiritual journey through the
western door, on Saturday, August 9, 2003 at the age of 56 years. He
was born in Mindemoya,
son of Vincent
DEBASSIGE and the late Margaret
(MIGWANS)
DEBASSIGE.
Phillip worked in M'Chigeeng teaching computers at Kenjgewin Teg, a
member of the Economic Development Committee and worked with the
Union of Ontario Indians as well as Metis Nation of Ontario. He also
enjoyed band politics especially the First Nation Governance Act.
Phillip enjoyed playing the trumpet, playing lotteries especially
Keno and horse racing. He was a great community worker as he helped
many work in their garden, visited elders, enjoyed his time at the
maple sugar camp and helped others with house construction and
renovations. This familiar sight walking in the neighbourhood or on
his way to Gus's store to play his numbers, will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
Loving father of Corena
RYAN and husband Justin, Ladeanne
DEBASSIGE
and Nathan
MIGWANS.
LovedMishomis of Justice and Reign
RYAN.
Survived by his former wife
Giovanna. Dear brother of Ina
PANAMICK,
Alfred DEBASSIGE (wife Gladys), Marjorie
WEBKAMIGAD, Greg
DEBASSIGE
(friend Bonnie,) Norma
CORBIERE (friend Charlie,) Lyla
KINOSHAMEG
(husband Ray,) Nicolas
DEBASSIGE
(Alice,)
PatrickDEBASSIGE, Joanne
DEBASSIGE (Amadeo), Stanley
DEBASSIGE (wife Donna) and Doris
DEBASSIGE (friend Ronnie.) Also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Friends called at the home of Alfred
DEBASSIGEMonday and Tuesday.
The funeral mass will be celebrated at Immaculate Conception Church,
M'Chigeeng on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 11: 00 a.m. with Father
Robert FOLIOT as celebrant. Interment in M'Chigeeng Cemetery. Culgin Funeral Home

KINSEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-09 published
PRYCE,
MauriceHenryLecorneyMauriceHenryLecorneyPRYCE died at Vancouver, British Columbia,
aged 90. He was a theoretical physicist with very broad interests.
Following a spectacular early career at Cambridge, Oxford, and
Bristol, he spent the second half of his life in the United States
and Canada. Born in Croydon, England, on the 24th of January,
1913, he spent part of his childhood with his French mother in
France where he learned to speak French 'like a Normandy peasant'.
He was always encouraging to his two younger brothers, and fond
of risky experiments such as using a magneto to fire a small
cannon loaded with home-made gunpowder. Educated at the Royal
Grammar School in Guildford he entered Trinity College, Cambridge,
in 1930, graduating in 1933 and continuing to do research there
initially with Sir Ralph Fowler and subsequently with the Nobel
laureate Max Born. He spent two years as a Commonwealth Fund
Fellow at Princeton University in 1935-7 before returning to
Cambridge as a Fellow of Trinity College. During this period
in Cambridge he made outstanding contributions to the so-called
''New Field Theory'' proposed by Born and Infeld. He also wrote
an incisive paper demolishing the then fashionable idea that
light quanta might consist of pairs of neutrinos. Paul Dirac,
then one of the most influential theoretical physicists, was
so impressed (which was a very rare occurrence) that he spontaneously
offered to communicate the work to The Royal Society. Maurice
PRYCE later remarked that this was the high-point of his scientific
life. In 1939 he was appointed to a Readership in Theoretical
Physics at Liverpool University, and married Margarete
(GRITLI)
BORN. At the advent of war he joined the team working on radar
at the Admiralty Signal Establishment, and in 1944 transferred
to the Joint Atomic Energy Project in Montreal. In 1945 he returned
to his fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a university
lectureship, but was soon invited to become Wykeham Professor
of Physics at Oxford, a chair which had recently been earmarked
for a theoretical physicist after the long tenure of Sir John
Townsend. It was a bold appointment for someone aged only 32,
who looked even younger than his years. At Oxford he rapidly
acquired a large group of research students, many returning from
war service, several of whom were to become very distinguished
in their fields. His interests and knowledge spread across many
branches of physics, and students were put to work on widely
ranging topics stretching from field theory, the nuclear shell
model, liquid helium, to solid state physics. Maurice
PRYCE became
most directly involved in interpreting the magnetic properties
of atoms which were being studied in great detail through the
paramagnetic resonance techniques by Brebis Bleaney and his colleagues
in the Clarendon Laboratory. Almost half his published work relates
to this area where he elucidated in detail the interaction between
the magnetic electrons and the lattice (the crystal field), the
effective lattice dynamics (the Jahn-Teller effect) and interaction
with the nucleus (hyperfine structure). He also added considerably
to the understanding of the magnetic properties of atoms in the
actinide series, including the newly discovered transuranics.
During his time in Oxford he took sabbatical leave to spend a
year as Visiting Professor at Princeton. On his return he acted
as the part-time head of the theoretical physics division at
the nearby Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, where
he replaced the previous head, Klaus Fuchs, who was arrested
in 1950 and convicted on a charge of spying. In 1951 Maurice
PRYCE was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1954, frustrated
by the constraints of his position and in particular by the autocratic
management of Lord Cherwell, he accepted an invitation to succeed
Nevill Mott as Henry Overton Wills Professor of Physics at the
University of Bristol. With greater administrative duties as
head of the department he had less time to develop his research
group but he continued with the subjects that he had begun at
Oxford. His first marriage had broken down, and he married Freda
KINSEY in 1961. He then accepted a tempting offer by the University
of Southern California, and moved there in 1964, with the promise
of resources to build up, essentially from scratch, a first class
physics department. The reality turned out to be less attractive
than he had hoped. In 1968 he moved again to a chair at the University
of British Columbia in Vancouver where he was to remain until
his death, on the 24th of July 2003. During these later years
his main contributions were in the quite different field of astrophysics,
although others, on molecular photoionisation and on the properties
of the hydroxyl radical, continued to display his versatility
and his wide understanding of physics. This knowledge was greatly
valued by his colleagues who would rely on a critical appraisal
of their work and its interpretation. But he did not suffer fools
gladly and was a harsh critic; in a seminar, he could devastate
the speaker and embarrass the audience with his acerbic comments.
He also continued his interest in atomic energy derived from
his wartime work and was latterly a member of the Technical Advisory
Committee to the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited with a particular
interest on nuclear fuel waste management. Some of his last work
related to the questions of the safety of deposit of radioactive
materials in geological structures. Maurice
PRYCE was a keen
walker and camper and, in younger days, a dinghy sailor. He was
a competent pianist and liked to relax by playing classical music,
mainly Bach and Mozart. He was a good cook, which stood him in
good stead when entertaining Friends and family after his second
wife died in 1990. He inherited from his father a love and knowledge
of gardening, which he passed on to all four of his children.
He always kept a boyish liking for silly games, from elaborate
sandcastles on the beach to noisy card games on the living room
floor. Until ill health stopped him, he was a skilful Scrabble
player. He created a family tradition, perhaps characteristic
of his personal philosophy, of Collaborative Scrabble -- the
main aim is, within the rules, to maximize the overall score
rather than to beat the other players. The mathematical gene
has also passed on to his son John, well known in his field of
mathematical software engineering; and
to John's son Nathaniel,
a professional software engineer. The last 14 years of his life
he spent in the company of his great friend Eileen
GOLDBERG,
the widow of a South African lawyer who had been active in the
fight against apartheid. They shared their love of music, literature,
and walks in the woods. In December, 1997, he was incapacitated
by an osteoporosis-induced bone fracture and subsequent infection,
and spent his last five years at the University Hospital in Vancouver,
visited daily by Eileen. During this period his mind was unaffected,
and he bore immobility and frequent pain with patience, courage
and a sense of humour, remaining in exemplary good spirits throughout.
He is survived by his son, John, and three daughters, Sylvia,
Lois and Suki, all from his first marriage.
Copyright: Roger Elliott and John Sanders/The Independent, London.

KINSLEY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-11-19 published
Margaret "May"
KINSLEY
In loving memory of Margaret "Kay"
KINSLEY who died at Sudbury
Memorial Hospital on Sunday, November 16, 2003 at the age of 87 years.
Former resident of Tehkummah, Orangeville and Sudbury. Born to Alex
and Martha
McDONALD on September 7, 1916. Predeceased by both
husbands Clarence
KINSLEY and Archie
McLENNAN.
Loved by her
children, Florence and husband Gilbert
PYETTE of Mindemoya, John and
wife Jean of Mindemoya, Russell and wife Fern
McLENNAN of Bradford,
David KINSLEY of Tehkummah. Will be missed by her grandchildren,
Rodney, Anita, Frank, Doug, Don, Mark, Dennis, Janice, Patty
(Patricia). Predeceased by granddaughter Barb. Great grandmother of
ten. Remembered by siblings, "Russell" (William Alexander)(predeceased) and wife
Kathleen McDONALD,
Mary and husband Harry
LANKTREE (both predeceased,) Minerva
HALL
of Orangeville and Annie and husband Arther (predeceased)
McKINLEY of Sudbury.
Visitation from 2-4 and 7-9 on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 and
Funeral at 11: 00a.m. Thursday, November 20, 2003 all at Tehkummah
Pentecostal Church. Burial in Hilly Grove Cemetery. Island Funeral Home.

KINSMAN o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-12-10 published
Nels PETERSEN
The family announces with sorrow his death in Arizona on Sunday, November 30, 2003 at the age of 73 years.
He was born in Wadena, Saskatchewan and married Iona (née
COONEY) in Sudbury in 1950.
After 25 years of service with the Region of Sudbury, Nels retired in 1989 and moved with
Iona to Manitoulin Island. There they spent summers at Cedar Eden with their 5 children
and 14 grandchildren and enjoyed winters at Cielo Grande Park, Mesa, Arizona with many Friends
and relatives. He was always happiest tending to his flower and vegetable gardens and creating
projects in his workshop. Nels was a hard worker, but took time to enjoy a round of golf, a game
of pool, a good glass of wine and he always had a song in his heart. He will be remembered as
a devoted family man and a good friend. Dear son of Peter and Elizabeth (both predeceased).
Beloved husband of Iona
(COONEY)
PETERSEN of Sudbury. Loving father of Ken (partner Cathy
KINSMAN)
of Halifax, Kathy
WOLYNSKY (husband George) of Sudbury, Kirk (wife
Joyce) of Montreal, Mike
(wife Debra predeceased) of Sudbury and Patty
LAPLANTE (husband Paul) of Lively.
Proud grandfather of Ronnie, Laura, Nick, Graham, Kim, Elizabeth,
Jessica, Amy, Jayson, Angela, Andre, Michelle, Amanda and Emily.
Predeceased by sisters Herta and Elsie and brothers Andreas and Hans.
Survived by his brother Peter (wife Millie) and Arne and sisters
Margaret (husband Wilfred predeceased), Maren (husband Gordon
predeceased) and Toody (husband Ron predeceased) all of Saskatchewan.
He will be sadly missed as brother-in-law and uncle to his special
Friends Martti and Gloria
LUOMA of Coniston. Rested at the Jackson and
Barnard Funeral Home, 233 Larch Street, Sudbury. Funeral Mass at Christ the King Church on
Friday, December 5, 2003. Cremation at Parklawn Crematorium.